chrisjh Posted November 18, 2014 Report Share Posted November 18, 2014 I generally have an issue with the "Celebrity" Charity rent a mob, I always ask myself how much are they sticking in the tin, its been said if they paid rather than avoided their tax responsibility then that would be a start, i also find the position where Adele is getting stick from the likes of St Bob rich the blokes just reformed the Boomtown Rats lets jump on the next Africa bandwagon and the new track is garbage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashman Posted November 18, 2014 Report Share Posted November 18, 2014 Saint Bob rings and the whole world must stop and respond to him? I know his personal life's dog plop, but digging up Band Aid - again - smacks of attention seeking. Cameroon was right at the G20 - the UK Govt. (so us) handed over £250,000,000 to fight Ebola. Brazil and China - sweet FA. Let the others help put. I support UK-focussed charities instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imperfection Posted November 18, 2014 Report Share Posted November 18, 2014 I think Bono in particular is after being made a Saint. I wish them good luck,but in my opinion the song is poor. Charity songs lost their impact years ago. Did make me chuckle when you see the 'celebs' going into the studio and Radio 1's Nick Grimshaw was there too. That bloke would attend the opening of a crisp packet if it meant getting his face in the papers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted November 18, 2014 Report Share Posted November 18, 2014 Anybody hear that Liberian lady kick off on R4 this morning?? It was priceless. She took extreme offence as it insinuated that Africa was backward and raised one very pertinent point. Why would they know its Christmas? Most Liberians are Muslim!! A lass on that programme ( when Ed Milligram got a reaming from the bird off of popstars) pointed out that if each of those musicians dumped a million in the hat it would raise more than the appeal! I do wonder how many of the contributors are doing it just to riuse their profile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muddy Funker Posted November 18, 2014 Report Share Posted November 18, 2014 Unfortunately it doesn't tug on my heart strings, I couldn't give a toss. I think we need to get our own house in order before caring so much about africa.I also agree with the possibility that if each of these idiots gave some of their own cash would this campaign even need to exist? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisjpainter Posted November 18, 2014 Report Share Posted November 18, 2014 Anybody hear that Liberian lady kick off on R4 this morning?? It was priceless. She took extreme offence as it insinuated that Africa was backward and raised one very pertinent point. Why would they know its Christmas? Most Liberians are Muslim!! A lass on that programme ( when Ed Milligram got a reaming from the bird off of popstars) pointed out that if each of those musicians dumped a million in the hat it would raise more than the appeal! I do wonder how many of the contributors are doing it just to riuse their profile. She was quality wasn't she? The guy who she was on with was talking nonsense. He seemed to get it into his head that if you didn't do Band Aid, the only other response was to do absolutely nothing. the option of WRITE A BETTER SONG didn't seem to occur to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poontang Posted November 18, 2014 Report Share Posted November 18, 2014 Anybody hear that Liberian lady kick off on R4 this morning?? It was priceless. She took extreme offence as it insinuated that Africa was backward and raised one very pertinent point. Why would they know its Christmas? Most Liberians are Muslim!! If it was this woman she had a real pop at Esther Rantzen on Sunday Morning Live. It's worth watching from 24mins onwards. The kick off starts at around 28 minutes. # http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04sncx3/sunday-morning-live-series-5-episode-18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psyxologos Posted November 19, 2014 Report Share Posted November 19, 2014 I think this sums it up well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted November 19, 2014 Report Share Posted November 19, 2014 I think this sums it up well. Bullseye! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pegasus bridge Posted November 19, 2014 Report Share Posted November 19, 2014 (edited) Anybody hear that Liberian lady kick off on R4 this morning?? It was priceless. She took extreme offence as it insinuated that Africa was backward and raised one very pertinent point. Why would they know its Christmas? Most Liberians are Muslim!! A lass on that programme ( when Ed Milligram got a reaming from the bird off of popstars) pointed out that if each of those musicians dumped a million in the hat it would raise more than the appeal! I do wonder how many of the contributors are doing it just to riuse their profile. Yes, I heard this!! The air was blue in the car. I won't be giving a penny, her. Her attitude was disgraceful Edited November 19, 2014 by pegasus bridge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted November 19, 2014 Report Share Posted November 19, 2014 I think this sums it up well. Spot on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norfolk dumpling Posted November 19, 2014 Report Share Posted November 19, 2014 I was driving all day yesterday and caught all the carp about this and it was really quite funny. The Libarian woman would without doubt argue with her own reflection. Hate the song, agree these stars could (may already??) contribute more but at the end of the day the UK and our charities, including this lot, have done a hell of a lot more to help than huge parts of the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twistedsanity Posted November 19, 2014 Report Share Posted November 19, 2014 It's lovely isn't it, just before Christmas we have a load of multi millionaires using a little sing song to try and guilt trip people with very little money to give it all away, and they all believe they will get their place in heaven for doing such good work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brett1985 Posted November 19, 2014 Report Share Posted November 19, 2014 not a fan of the song, or some of the artists in it to be honest. if it helps raise some money to alleviate some suffering then great. i wont be buying it however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88b Posted November 19, 2014 Report Share Posted November 19, 2014 I think this sums it up well. Spot on , Geldof needs to get his own life in order. Perhaps if he followed Adele's example his life wouldn't be such a tragedy, and don't get me started on Bono. Charity begins at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPhantom Posted November 19, 2014 Report Share Posted November 19, 2014 Spot on , Geldof needs to get his own life in order. Perhaps if he followed Adele's example his life wouldn't be such a tragedy, and don't get me started on Bono. Charity begins at home. Bit harsh on Bob. Don't think he is any way to blame for his personal tragedy. Feel sorry for the guy. The new Band Aid single stinks though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted November 19, 2014 Report Share Posted November 19, 2014 It's all over the foreign news channels that a lot of Africans are fed up with 'the developed world' 'saving' them with a pop song. Maybe it's the cynical world we live in now but the whole thing feels a bit crass. The way they arrive by limo to record their one line and a big fuss is made etc etc. What they should have done is flown a load of African musicians over and paid for them to do their own song. That would have sold in bucketloads too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted November 19, 2014 Report Share Posted November 19, 2014 It's all over the foreign news channels that a lot of Africans are fed up with 'the developed world' 'saving' them with a pop song. What they should have done is flown a load of African musicians over and paid for them to do their own song. That would have sold in bucketloads too. But wattiff we all getz ebola tho innit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poontang Posted November 19, 2014 Report Share Posted November 19, 2014 I just tried to download Geldof's ebola single...but my anti virus programme killed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
39TDS Posted November 20, 2014 Report Share Posted November 20, 2014 It's lovely isn't it, just before Christmas we have a load of multi millionaires using a little sing song to try and guilt trip people with very little money to give it all away, and they all believe they will get their place in heaven for doing such good work Nobody in this country has very little money compared with people where the ebola outbreaks are. We are damned lucky in our part of the world if we just realised it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruno22rf Posted November 20, 2014 Report Share Posted November 20, 2014 Personally I would rather have Ebola than listen to One Erection . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overandunder2012 Posted November 20, 2014 Report Share Posted November 20, 2014 this version of the song is **** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazooka Joe Posted November 20, 2014 Report Share Posted November 20, 2014 The link that Psyxologos posted sums it up for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secretagentmole Posted November 20, 2014 Report Share Posted November 20, 2014 This is a much better Christmas single and precisely what Bob is doing! https://www.facebook.com/events/651946844885450/?fref=ts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmytree Posted November 20, 2014 Report Share Posted November 20, 2014 We did Band Aid all those years ago, gave millions and what's changed? Almost nothing. A friend of mine is a devout Christian, a great bloke who gives up his time regularly to visit Africa and help with schemes for water supplies, schools etc. He pays his own costs and donates what he can afford in the way of tools, money and knowhow. He's an inventor type, comes up with solutions to problems and presents them to the communities as something they can do to help themselves. He's reached the point of no return because in his opinion, most of the aid is wasted money and wasted effort. We have deserving charities in this country, we have kids on the breadline and homeless families, rough sleepers who have no help, vulnerable people who are abandoned by the authorities. Kids in danger in communities all over the country. I may not be scientist material but all I see of most of Africa is a country that cannot support a growing population, ruled by fraudulent leaders, cities governed by criminals and a large proportion of the population that have little or no interest in really improving their situation if it involves effort or hard work. Ok, I accept we may have things easier in the West but 30 odd years ago we had pictures of African children walking miles to a waterhole for dirty water, they're still doing it. On my friends last visit he was horrified to see the tools and equipment from his last visit abandoned on waste ground. One of these was a home built paper making contraption to solve the shortage of paper in the school he helped to build. The recyclable paper was being burnt and the school was being used as a maize store. What money I can spare for charity will stay in this country to help solve the problems here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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